When their country is invaded by a neighboring army bent on enslaving their people, teenage orphan Sam Surry and his three younger sisters leave their home and embark on a cross-country journey to find safety in the capitol. With only a wooden cart and a mule, the family manages to stay one step ahead of the hostile military at every turn, becoming folk heroes in the process.

Kanti is living in terror – a slave raised believing himself free, a criminal even before his birth. Everyone thinks he's someone he isn't: a playboy reduced to working at the dump, a spiteful son trying to make amends, and perhaps even an excuse to recycle every last officer, crewman, and cub on board. The next few days will be a turning point for this unlikely hero.

*Massively edited version* The end of the thirteenth bak'tun has come. The ancient gods have returned for their conquest of our world, but the battle has yet to begin. Shane Johnson is a not-so-ordinary teenager who gets thrown into the middle of it all. The story comes in three parts: Encounters, Reckoning, and Invasion.

Colab with Warrior of Spectra. After investigating a mysterious device, the crew of the Partnership vessel Vengeance now find themselves in another universe. With the device that brought them to this new universe disfunctional, they must now aid the crew of the Phantom-3 against galactic terrorists.

A bus-full of misfits on their way to joining the USMC have to brave training, the environment, and each other if they want to succeed. However, they find themselves in pretty sticky situations even when they're not looking for it. Will they live up to "Semper Fidelis", or will they be "Semper Failures", or worse "Semper Dead"?

Yttria is losing ships but they don't know how. The Divine Lady attacks but they can't find her. Darcy fights a ghost while Eljay lays recovering in Clinic. As much as Matilda and Roger improve they are still not up to the task of ruling an empire. And still Tenpole strikes and Parcles is rampant with greed. All just in time for a mass visit from the blessed ones of Yttria.

Erica unified Ipet but Derek escaped. The Defense Delegate brings him back with demands to meet the new so-called leader of Ipet about whom Derek tells fantastic stories. Commander Lufkin must choose to protect Erica or follow the Defense Delegate's apparent plan to remove her for gaining power illegally. As he ponders his actions, Erica points out a greater threat.

I've always hated that meme that "Aliens always abduct drunken slack-jaw yokels in the middle in nowhere, people with the IQ of warm sand, who have never read a Science Fiction Book in their life, and have never fought anything more than a school yard fight" So what, I ruminated, if the aliens came to Earth, and abducted a group of guys, say, Rednecks with a grasp of Science?